American Dream - Hardcover

Mailer, Norman.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 023395726X ISBN 13: 9780233957265

Publisher: Leisure Circle, 1965

Synopsis

271p hardback, dustjacket, first edition, very good, nice copy, name in ink

About this title

Review:

Mailer writes like an angel a master of small surprises that are precursors of seismic shocks.
--London Review of Books

From the Back Cover:

War hero, ex-Congressman, a professor of 'popular but somewhat notorious reputation', television personality and husband of the rich and beautiful Deborah ('a girl who would have been bored by a diamond as big as the Ritz'), Stephen Rojack lived the American Dream. But his enviable life concealed a strange tension, the constant 'itch to jump', and when one day he finally cracks and strangles his luscious wife, he unleashes a personality of undreamt-of ferocity.

A wanted murderer, Rojack is suddenly catapulted into an alien world of gangsters, crumbling tenements and downtown bars. Here, he meets Cherry, a small-time singer who ekes out her living in sleazy nightclubs, waiting for a break. She's the woman Rojack falls for, dangerously, desperately, tragically...

A powerful exploration of one man's quest for depravity, 'An American Dream' shocked the USA on first publication in 1965 with its graphic depictions of sex and violence. One of the key works of twentieth-century American literature, the novel's white-hot prose makes it, for many, Mailer's finest achievement.

“Mailer writes like an angel – a master of small surprises that are precursors of seismic shocks.”
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

“A devil's encyclopaedia of our secret visions and desires”
LIFE

About this edition

• Publisher: Leisure Circle
• Publication date: 1965
• ISBN 10: 023395726X
• ISBN 13: 9780233957265
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 271